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The debate of the century Tonight’s debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden was pure entertainment. It was the kind of performative spectacle Americans now expect from political leaders. That’s why the news media hyped this debate as if it were a boxing match between two geriatric heavyweights. News anchors made famed… Read more.
Plea deal for bail-jumping Assange Finally, after over a decade of high drama, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faced justice. In a courtroom far, far away — in Saipan, of all places — he pleaded guilty to one felony charge of violating the Espionage Act. According to a plea deal with the US government, the court… Read more.
Trumpism rules conservative justices Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she often cries over how conservative justices are trashing the Constitution. But their willful delay in ruling on Trump’s frivolous immunity claim is enough to make any patriotic American cry. Of course, there should be no crying at the Supreme Court. After all, its proceedings are as… Read more.
MAGA-Republican fear-mongering MAGA-Republican fear-mongering has Democrats wetting their beds. In fact, with their talk of revenge, “I-am-your-retribution” Trump and his bullying MAGA propagandists are fiendishly instilling fear in everyone. ‘Of course we aren’t fucking bluffing.’ That’s the message one close Trump adviser and former administration official to speak…wants to get across to the press and… Read more.
Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. It freed all enslaved people in the Southern States. But Union soldiers took two-and-a-half years to inform Galveston, Texas, of the Proclamation. Enslaved Blacks there finally heard the news of their freedom on June 19, 1865. Juneteenth commemorates this unconscionable delay. Yet, that… Read more.
Rogue justices Clarence Thomas might be the most indignant financial grifter among the justices, but Samuel Alito is easily the most self-righteous political hack. Only that explains Alito’s constant whining about press coverage of his partisan antics. But the panties featured in the cartoon below might explain the shameful and shameless way he threw his… Read more.
Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Justice On this day in history, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court Justice, shattering racial barriers. He was the brilliant mind behind the strategy that eradicated state-sponsored segregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. He founded The Legal Defense Fund to aid the Civil Rights… Read more.
Hunter’s guilty verdict benefits Biden’s campaign A Delaware jury convicted President Biden’s son Hunter today on three felony counts for lying on gun-purchasing paperwork and unlawfully possessing a gun. Evidently, jurors found testimony about his notorious adventures and struggles with drug addiction wrenching but not exculpatory. He now faces 25 years in prison. Yet, Hunter’s… Read more.
The GOP: from political party to con syndicate The Republican Party has transformed into a national con syndicate. This is more evident than ever with convicted felon Donald Trump as its leader. But conning is what Republicans do. That’s clear enough from the lies they tell just to “own the libs.” Indeed, all they contribute… Read more.
It’s really that simple: like Putin’s oligarchs, Trump’s wannabe oligarchs will side with money over democracy any day. Meanwhile, Trump repeatedly warned there would be “death and destruction … and riots in the streets like we’ve never seen” if Democratic prosecutors indict him. Well, they indicted him four times, and a “Democratic jury” has even… Read more.
